Living the Dream

This quote neatly sums up why I respect Barack Obama:

The reason why Obama is liked by many Republicans is that he is campaigning as if the content of his character truly is more important than any vestigial constraints imposed by the color of his skin [...].

I'm not a Democrat and I'm not sympathetic to his policy positions, but he is different from the mass of his ilk, and conservatives respect that. The quote's from the National Review Online, by the way -- Bill Buckley's website.